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Romeo Castellucci directs, and Teodor Currentzis conducts, an unusual double bill of a Bartok classic and an Orff rarity at the Salzburg Festival.

At Salzburg, Don Giovanni gets no pleasure from seducing Romeo Castellucci © SF/Anne Zeuner. by Ben Miller (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- “Chi son io, tu non saprai,” stage director Romeo Castellucci said during a recent interview in the lobby of the Salzburg Festival’s main theater. He smiled and gestured to an interpreter, who gave the translation: “You will never know who I am.” The phrase is part of the title character’s entrance line in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and announces the work’s st...